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jumploopsyesterday at 9:52 PM3 repliesview on HN

Not to be that agentic coding guy, but I think this will become less of a problem than our historic biases suggest.

For context, I just built a streaming markdown renderer in Swift because there wasn’t an existing open source package that met my needs, something that would have taken me weeks/months previously (I’m not a Swift dev).

Porting all the C libraries you need isn’t necessarily an overnight task, but it’s no longer an insurmountable mountain in terms of dev time.


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MattDamonSpaceyesterday at 9:59 PM

My favorite part is the AI will still estimate projects in human-time.

“You’re looking at a multi-week refactor” aaaaand it’s done

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randomNumber7today at 7:08 AM

It's not necessary to rewrite perfectly fine libraries written by exceptional programmers. And whoever thinks it is an easy task (sorry rust guys) is severely suffering from the dunning-kruger effect.

buzzerbetrayedtoday at 12:43 AM

Very high quality comment that is being downvoted unfairly because it defends AI. HN is on the wrong side of history on this one.